[maemo-developers] Graphical Interface designer for Qt

[From: Robin Burchell]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Andrea Grandi <a.grandi at gmail.com> wrote:
> a similar tool exist for Python too, I'm aware of it, but it's not
> supporting Maemo at all.
> I hope you know that Maemo UI is quite differente from the desktop Qt version.

It works fine. It converts a .ui to a .cpp, which you can then cross
compile for your device. I do know that it's different precisely
because I've been doing this stuff myself, as has Marcin and others.

> There aren't only QtButton, QtDialog, QtLabel ecc... in a user interface.
> Maemo has its own widget and there's no way (at the moment) to have a
> real preview of them.

In Qt 4.6, there are only 7 Maemo5-specific classes, and 2-3 of those
aren't widgets. Those that are, aren't something which will be used
everywhere. Meaning that for most dialogs, you probably *will* be able
to use Designer, if you keep in mind how e.g. QMenuBar appears on
Maemo, etcetera.

I said all of this in my original mail.



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